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11-29-11 By Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press (MCT)
http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=11953&Section=Aging
Nov. 27--Wilma Lakin always included a meat, a vegetable and a starch -- like potatoes or macaroni -- in the dinners she prepared.
Elizabeth Clark Bouch reads the New York Times daily and enjoys a martini before dinner.
Alfred Eadle Belfer watches Westerns -- John Wayne is a big favorite -- and voraciously reads books about cowboys.
All three -- who live at Halsted Place, a retirement community in Farmington Hills -- are part of a rare group: They've reached the age of 100.
"They're the rock stars of aging," said Lynn Peters Adler, founder of the National Centenarian Awareness Project based in Phoenix, which celebrates active centenarians.
The number of centenarians has grown in Michigan and is expected to keep growing. The 2010 U.S. census tallied 1,729 people 100 or older in Michigan, up 194 centenarians from 10 years earlier. Nationwide, centenarians number about 50,000.